| Description | Correspondence, and telegraphs relating to the trust set up upon the first marriage of Helen B. Bridgman [nee Moore], of Tavistock, Devon, to Mr Charles Mitchell Charles.
Correspondents include the trustees, Helen Bridgman and her second husband Mr Charles Vickry Bridgman [solicitor, Tavistock], relatives of the Bridgman's including the brother-in-law of Mrs Bridgman, Andrew Paton Charles, and her daughters by her first husband, financial advisors/stock brokers including Mr T. W. Greenfield of Tavistock, and representatives of commercial concerns in whom trust funds were invested. These include the Scinde Railway Co, Birmingham Canal Navigations, and the Great Northern and Great Western Railway Cos. In addition, the trust also managed investments in properties in Calcutta, India.
The original trustees were Andrew Paton Charles, John G. Moore [brother of Mrs Helen Bridgman, d 1879], and James Watson. New trustees appointed on the deaths of Andrew Paton Charles and John Moore, and the retirement from the trust of James Watson in 1872 and Michael Leoman in 1879, were William G. Moore and Rev John Wilmot Neat.
Correspondence relates largely to Charles Bridgman's financial difficulties and repeated requests for loans from the trustees, but there is also correspondence relating to more general trust financial matters including trust investments and dividends, the issue of new stock certificates on the deaths of trustees, and the transfer and exchange of deeds and associated documents between the solicitors, trustees and the Bridgmans. |